In May 1950, more than 10,000 indignated people gathered together to await the public trial and execution of the giant bandit bully Zhou Wenshan.
This murderous guy who didn't blink was actually scared to death in the venue. The order of the venue was suddenly out of control, and the angry people rushed up, smashed Zhou Wenshan's body into meat paste with stones, and then threw it into the raging river water to feed the fish and turtles.
Zhou Wenshan was born in 1895, also known as Zhou Shenglian, a native of Baixi Village, Niedu Township, Chongyi County.
Zhou Wenshan's appearance is not proud, and his family has been poor since childhood. Nor have I read the book. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he worked in a paper shed (paper workshop) in Neiliang Village, Dayu County, Jiangxi.
Locally produced jade buckle paper is very popular, and the production of this paper requires a large amount of tender bamboo. Zhou Wenshan's job is to go deep into the mountains every day to cut bamboo.
In the deep mountains, in addition to guarding against poisonous snakes and wild beasts, we must also beware of bandits who do nothing wrong.
At noon on this day, Zhou Wenshan was cutting bamboo in the mountains, and on the rugged and winding mountain road, there appeared five people carrying burdens and wearing bucket hats, and these people only hurried to hurry and did not find Zhou Wenshan.
But Zhou Wenshan, who was hiding in the grass, was already terrified to the extreme, praying that these people would not find him.
But Zhou Wenshan was really too scared, his body trembled, and the weeds also shook violently.
Several people wearing bucket hats found Zhou Wenshan, but they didn't seem to want to make a fuss, and one of them took out a bag of things from the basket and put it on the road, and then said loudly: "The road is facing the sky, each side." Friends in the grass are convenient." Then the footsteps hurried away.
It wasn't until the 5 people wearing bucket hats disappeared that Zhou Wenshan walked out trembling and opened the oil-paper package, which contained high-grade smoke.
Zhou Wenshan finally realized that the five people wearing bucket hats were all big smokers who smuggled big cigarettes.
Zhou Wenshan went to the town to exchange big cigarettes for 40 pieces of ocean, and his heart could not be said to be happy, he was in the paper shed, and he could not earn a piece of ocean in a month.
Zhou Wenshan, with an upstart mentality, invited the guys in the same shed to the best restaurant in town for a drink.
On the way back, Zhou Wenshan, who was drunk, said: "I will never go back to the paper shed, and I will go to the mountains to 'cat'." Those big smokers don't dare to hurt people, and as long as I bump into them once a year, I will earn more than I do in the paper shed."
To tell the truth, the guys in the paper shed used to look down on Zhou Wenshan, but now he has made a windfall, and what he said is not nonsense. So a few guys said that they were willing to go with Zhou Wenshan to do the business of "keeping the plant and waiting for the rabbit", provided that when there was no business, Zhou Wenshan was responsible for their food and accommodation.
The path that Zhou Wenshan inadvertently discovered was a secret path smuggled by big smokers. So Zhou Wenshan and a few guys squatted there for two days, and then they bumped into a group of guys smuggling big cigarettes.
The big smokers looked at Zhou Wenshan and they were many, leaving two packs of big cigarettes as "road money". Zhou Wenshan exchanged 90 pieces of ocean this time, he gave two pieces to each of the guys who helped, and the rest were swallowed alone.
The guys felt that Zhou Wenshan was too greedy, so they parted ways, leaving Zhou Wenshan alone, and a few people went to the path alone to crouch.
Unexpectedly, the big smokers felt that this secret path was no longer safe, had found another way, and never appeared on this path again.
Zhou Wenshan and the other guys squatted in the mountains for nearly three months, and as a result, they did not earn a penny. The other guys died and went back to work in the paper shed.
Only Zhou Wenshan walked along that path, looking for more than 20 miles, and finally found the newly opened secret path of the big smokers.
Zhou Wenshan did not dare to rush to do anything this time, and the big smokers flocked in groups, at least fifty or sixty people at a time, feeling that there was a wind and grass pulling out a gun.
Zhou Wenshan had a lot of ghost ideas, and he used ropes to connect dozens of small trees in a dangerous part of the newly discovered path. When the big smokers passed, Zhou Wenshan pulled the rope, and dozens of small trees shook violently together.
The big smokers, not knowing how many people were hiding in the woods, left a load of cigarettes as "road money" and hurried away.
Zhou Wenshan carried the big smoke home and sold the big smoke to several nearby counties such as Rucheng, Renhua, Dayu, and Chongyi, and actually earned more than 2,200 oceans.
Zhou Wenshan used the money to buy two short guns, but he no longer dared to rob the big smokers.
The big smokers eat a grain and grow a wisdom, and now they smuggle big cigarettes, and they have special bodyguards to escort them.
The two men in the paper shed, not knowing the stakes, were also in the place where Zhou Wenshan had robbed last time, drawing scoops according to gourds and connecting the trees with ropes. But these two people not only did not get a penny, but they were also shot and killed indiscriminately, taking two lives in vain.
Those two unlucky guys also let Zhou Wenshan escape the disaster. The big smokers have lost a load of goods and will certainly not give up. Now there are two "substitute ghosts", and the big smokers think that they did the last case.
Zhou Wenshan made a fortune, and he also wanted to change evil and return to the right to do legitimate business, and it was his best choice to open his own paper shed.
After working in the paper shed for a few months, Zhou Wenshan found that this business did not earn as much as he imagined, so he returned to his old business. Now he had a gun in his hand, dared to blatantly rob a single merchant who had passed by, and had won it several times in a row.
Zhou Wenshan made a fortune, no longer the little guy in the paper shed who no one looked down on, and more and more people came to him.
Blocking the road and robbing could no longer satisfy Zhou Wenshan's growing ambitions. From 1919 onwards, the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang began to attack the surrounding villages and towns.
The lair of the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang is located in Ousha near Chensha at the junction of Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces. It is connected to Dongling and Yuwang in Rucheng in the west; Ledong in Chongyi in the north; and Changjiang Town in Renhua in the south. It is not far from the main traffic road, which is convenient for the bandits to loot around. As for the bandit nest Osha, the terrain there is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are four counties near rucheng, renhua, dayu and chongyi, which is a place that does not care.
The local area is densely forested, with streams and streams, deep rocks, and small plains between mountains and forests that form their own villages. This also gave the bandits an opportunity to rob.
The first to be looted was the village of Guantian in Chongyi County, where bandits stole a large amount of money, including 9 cattle.
The first success made Zhou Wenshan taste the sweetness, and then he was out of control.
In the next seven years, the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang repeatedly robbed Wenying, Guting, Guantian, Niedu, Ledong and other villages in Chongyi County.
In addition, the villages of Shacun, Jicun, Neiliang, and Hedong in Dayu County were also tragically destroyed; Jilong, Hot Water, Leling, and Yuwang in Rucheng County, Hunan Province; and Villages and Towns in Changjiang, Fuxi, and Chengkou in Renhua County, Guangdong Province, were also repeatedly looted by the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang, and as many as 300 ordinary people were killed.
In addition to robbery, Zhou Wenshan also kidnapped hostages, and there is a characteristic of this house, the kidnapped hostages are mainly young children and young girls.
Kidnapping young children can ask parents for more ransom without worrying about them escaping.
As for the kidnapped girls, even if their families can't get ransom, Zhou Wenshan can sell them
。 The most hateful thing is that Zhou Wenshan forced the kidnapped girls to "teach street lessons", and the bandits took money to give to Zhou Wenshan, so that they could wantonly insult these poor girls.
Many girls could not bear the torture and chose to commit suicide, and Zhou Wenshan also asked the girls' families to pay a "ransom fee".
Zhou Wenshan seized and plundered, accumulating huge wealth in more than ten years. Every time a certain number was reached, Zhou Wenshan would send his bandits to carry gold and silver treasures and personally escort them to the mountains.
After arriving at the place where the treasure was hidden, Zhou Wenshan would order the bandits to dig two pits, one large and one small.
The bandits buried the gold and silver treasures in the small pit, and Zhou Wenshan would be surprised and shoot these treasure-burying bandits and bury them in the big pit.
Zhou Wenshan also gave these dead bandits the name of a crepe crepe, "Boy Who Guarded the Cellar".
There are at least 16 treasure pits like this, and no one knows the specific location except himself. For many years, people have been searching for these treasures in the local mountains, but so far they have found nothing.
The "money-keeping boys" who are killed are usually not very old, with clear eyebrows and a list of talents.
The reason why Zhou Wenshan wanted to get rid of them was because of his large number of wives and concubines. Zhou Wenshan was not proud of his appearance, and he was worried that those wives and concubines who were like flowers and jade might have an ambiguous relationship with those handsome-looking bandits, so he cut the grass and roots and killed them to prevent trouble.
The bandits who died did not dream that Junxiu's appearance was the cause of their deaths.
In the matter of treating women, even if Ximen Qing saw Zhou Wenshan, he would have to bow to the wind.
Zhou Wenshan looked ugly, and when he was young, his family was poor, so no woman would marry him for a long time.
However, this did not prevent Zhou Wenshan from having his own dream lover, who had long taken a fancy to the daughter of Liu Yihong in Chongyi Zhudong Village.
Liu Girl has a slender body, clear eyebrows, fair skin, and is a well-known local beauty.
Zhou Wenshan's toad wanted to eat swan meat, but he also knew that he had a few pounds, the Liu family was well-off, and there were many children, and Zhou Wenshan did not dare to easily offend.
In this way, Zhou Wenshan watched as the Liu family girl married someone. Married to Cai Chuanbin of the nearby Village of Wudong Trail.
On the second day of the first lunar month in 1924, according to local customs, newlyweds had to return to the door. Cai Chuanbin and his wife had just walked to the Bamboo Cave Pass, when they were stopped by Zhou Wenshan, who was smiling and smiling.
Zhou Wenshan said, "Sister Liu, I see that this time you have to go with me, there is no need to go home."
Saying that, he forcibly pulled away the Liu family girl, Cai Chuanbin was helpless, and could only follow him to Zhou Wenshan's bandit nest.
Zhou Wenshan forced the Liu family girl to be his "lady of the village", and the Liu family girl swore to die.
Zhou Wenshan sneered, "If you dare to commit suicide, I will kill your husband first, and then destroy your two families."
Liu Girl was embarrassed, and finally could only get rid of Zhou Wenshan and become his "Lady of the Press". At this time, Zhou Wenshan was already in his thirties.
Zhou Wenshan had the "Lady of the Pressed Village", who knew the taste of the marrow, and successively took six concubines.
The most unbelievable thing is that Zhou Wenshan's seventh wife was his adopted daughter Li Riying (Zhou Guiying).
Zhou Wenshan was nearly thirty years old and had not yet married, and he was worried that he would never die, so he adopted Li Riying, who was a few months old.
More than ten years have passed, The cardamom age of Li Riying, has fallen out of the pavilion, teeth white lips red. In fact, he was overwhelmed by the obsession of his stepfather who was inferior to the beast, and despite the shameful laughter of outsiders, Jonah Riying made his sixth concubine.
Zhou Wenshan's family is warblers and swallows, and his wives and concubines are flocked, but he is still not satisfied, and he often sleeps outside with flowers and willows, fighting for the wind and jealousy for women.
In 1933, Nie Du had a man named Zhu Maoshun, and a girl surnamed Yang was privately engaged for life.
Zhou Wenshan saw that Yang Girl was like a flower, so he forcibly imprisoned Yang Girl in a private house and threatened to cut off Zhu Maoshun's head.
Zhu Maoshun was also a greedy and afraid of death, leaving Miss Yang behind, hiding outside for a few months, and then taking the initiative to find someone to say peace from it.
Zhou Wenshan got a bargain and punished Zhu Maoshun for handing over five quintals of jade buckle paper, and he also had to sweep the street for a month.
Zhou Wenshan was lustful as fate, as long as he let him see a woman with a posture, he had to find a way to get his hands on it.
Zhou Wenshan has been running amok in the local area for thirty years, and no one can say how many good family women have been poisoned by him.
In 1925, Zhou Wenshan planned to wash his hands of the golden basin and no longer do the business of robbing the family, and the money he earned now could not be spent in several lifetimes, and there was no need to live this kind of worrying, knifehead and drinking blood.
So Zhou Wenshan sent a generous gift to the then chongyi county magistrate, and was successfully recruited, and Zhou Wenshan was transformed from a bandit leader to a "border district captain" in Chongyi County. It's a talisman that opens up the light. Even if ordinary people are wronged, they do not dare to provoke him.
The new official took office with three fires, and Zhou Wenshan, who became an official, planned to do a few good things first and show them to the people.
The first thing Zhou Wenshan did was to marry a daughter-in-law to Cai Chuanbin.
Cai Chuanbin's daughter-in-law was snatched by Zhou Wenshan to become the "Lady of the Pressed Village". The revenge of taking his wife is not to wear the heavens together, and Zhou Wenshan is also afraid of being retaliated by Cai Chuanbin, so he found a daughter-in-law for him.
I robbed your daughter-in-law before, and now I pay you back one, and from then on, I don't owe you anything, and everyone is happy.
Zhou Wenshan felt that he handled this matter very well, but Cai Chuanbin's heart was not a taste. Originally accompanied by a white swan, it has now become an ugly duckling. Moreover, this wife is also entangled with Zhou Wenshan, and her reputation is very bad.
In Cai Chuanbin's view, Zhou Wenshan got him a watermelon skin-colored hat to buckle on his head, and Cai Chuanbin was grateful to Zhou Wenshan, which was simply too deceitful.
The more Cai Chuanbin thought about it, the more he nestled in the fire, and finally simply left his family and worked as a soldier.
The second "good thing" that Zhou Wenshan did was to take the initiative to assume the role of "marriage mediator".
At that time, warlords were in scuffles, and years of war caused a large number of young and middle-aged men to die in the war. This has also caused the phenomenon of more women and fewer men in rural areas.
Therefore, after the family of a girl marries off the daughter, if she is suspended by the in-laws, she will feel very disgraceful.
Zhou Wenshan stepped forward and said: In the future, if you encounter this kind of thing, you will leave it to me to deal with.
Zhou Wenshan has a very good set of handling this kind of thing, he will say to the man: "A day husband and wife hundred days of grace, can not leave the best not to leave, you go back first, think about it, after three or five months to change your mind, you will bring your daughter-in-law back."
The woman who stayed behind, in Zhou Wenshan's family, is a maid who does not spend money, and besides, his name of lust, everyone knows it, even if the man changes his mind, he will not take his daughter-in-law back, and people are afraid of words.
But even if the man does not come to pick up, Zhou Wenshan also has a way, he often finds some people from other places to come, gather those women who are suffering together, like selling livestock in the market, let others choose and take them away.
As for where to go after taking it? Do? No one knows.
However, it is strange to say that since Zhou Wenshan used this trick, the local divorce rate has dropped sharply.
Six months after Zhou Wenshan was recruited, he began to build a large number of civil engineering projects to create a comfortable nest for himself.
The first manor was built on the town of Yangtze River. But the people in the town of Yangtze River felt that the bottom of Zhou Wenshan was too smelly. Every three to five years, he came to his trouble. First, he got his "Lady of the Press" to prison for a year. Later, at the sixth yingshen tournament in early June, Zhou Wenshan's people and the Yangtze River Town business group actually fought hard. As a result, Zhou Wenshan suffered a loss, was killed by the other side, killed two people, and many of his subordinates were injured.
Zhou Wenshan was a bully who was afraid of hard goods, and he felt that the people in Yangtze River Town were not easy to mess with, so he ran to Muxitou, six miles north of Yangtze River Town, and built a manor covering an area of tens of acres. But people who have been there have said that it is a pocket version of the "barracks".
The manor has a gun tower, a granary, a wall, etc., and the most surprising thing is that there is a small arsenal, which can not only make earth guns, earth cannons, but also make grenades.
Zhou Wenshan was the biggest bandit leader in the local area, and he became the "captain of the brigade", and the local security was much better. Some people who had been bullied by Zhou Wenshan in the past ran to the county to file a complaint, requesting that his "captain" title be revoked. Only by going to Zhou Wenshan's amulet could I clean him up.
Zhou Wenshan saw that his position as "captain" was not secure, so he came up with another trick, he deliberately sent some bandits, gave them guns, let them go up the mountain to become bandits, continue to kill people and set fires, beat up homes and rob houses, and whoever sued him would do it to whomever he wanted.
It didn't take long for the surrounding four counties to become miasma- and everyone was in danger.
Local officials, chambers of commerce, and some squires asked Zhou Wenshan to come forward to suppress the bandits.
Zhou Wenshan just went out on horseback and turned around, and the rampant banditry was calm. Zhou Wenshan once again sat firmly in the position of "captain".
In 1930, the Red Guards led by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army captured Chongyi County. Zhou Wenshan personally led a group of bandits to snatch chongyi county back from the Hands of the Red Guards, and dozens of wounded and captured Red Guards were buried alive by Zhou Wenshan's orders.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo passed through Gannan Province.
As a result, as soon as Chiang Ching-kuo arrived, the bandit leaders Li Ying and Brother Li Xiong gave him a dismount and ambushed one of Chiang Ching-kuo's transport convoys.
It is said that this Li Ying and Li Xiong brothers are also inextricably linked to Zhou Wenshan. Their family lived in Baixi Tianxin Village, and they were the earliest followers of Zhou Wenshan when he was a bandit.
Later, Zhou Wenshan instigated his bandits to go up the mountain to do evil, and the Li brothers were one of them.
The Li brothers were quite ambitious, ostensibly obedient to Zhou Wenshan's words, but secretly actively expanded their strength, and finally had more than 100 bandits under their command.
The brothers felt that their wings were hardened, so they did not put Zhou Wenshan in their eyes, and privately did a lot of work to rob the family.
The Li brothers robbed Chiang Ching-kuo's motorcade, and Zhou Wenshan was very afraid after hearing the news, and once the Li brothers were arrested and tracked down, he Zhou Wenshan would not be able to escape.
In order to silence the Li brothers, Zhou Wenshan volunteered to go to suppress the bandits.
Around the Li brothers, there are a lot of Zhou Wenshan's eyeliner, and their every move is in Zhou Wenshan's grasp.
In the first month of 1941, Li Xiong was killed in the Baixi Township Dry Hall, and two days later, Li Ying was also beheaded by Zhou Wenshan at Wudong Chatou.
Zhou Wenshan cleanly solved the Li brothers, which made Jiang Jingguo greatly moved, thinking that Zhou Wenshan was a rare talent.
Later, when Chiang Ching-kuo was inspecting Nie Du, he also stayed overnight at the Baixi Manor in Zhou Wenshan. Although Zhou Wenshan did not soar because of this, his two teenage sons, Zhou Zhenmin and Zhou Zhenlan, one became the township chief of Wenying Township, and the other became the mayor of Nie Du Township. Zhou Wenshan's confidant Xiao Daxun is the mayor of Guting Township.
At this time, Zhou Wenshan was powerful and powerful, and in the local area, it was called a one-handed covering of the sky. He set up a private tax card, and the reasons for taxing it were varied. This alone brings Zhou Wenshan more than 800 oceans of income every day.
After the liberation of Chongyi County, Zhou Wenshan regrouped to go up the mountain as bandits. In just two or three months, more than 20 bloody cases were committed, and three or four hundred cadres, fighters, and innocent people were brutally killed by him.
On the afternoon of October 16, 1949, Zhou Wenshan gathered three or four hundred bandits and secretly assembled in Guantian Village to prepare to attack Chongyi County.
Two plainclothes reconnaissance officers from the People's Liberation Army arrived. The scouts were bold enough to attack the bandits. Two submachine guns fired their bows left and right, killing from the north gate to the south gate, and hundreds of bandits fled into the wilderness.
Xiao Daxun, chief of staff of the bandits, fled to the high slope outside the South Gate before stopping, he looked back and found that there were only two PLA fighters, so he immediately ordered the bandits to launch a counterattack.
Two PLA scouts, outnumbered, hurriedly withdrew from the village and crossed the river back to the Shimonoseki garrison.
The Zhou Wenshan bandits finally revealed their whereabouts.
On the night of October 21, the main force of the People's Liberation Army divided into three routes, starting from Lead Mountain and rushing to attack Guantian Village.
After arriving at Guantian Village, they learned that the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang had moved to Nie Du, and the warriors surrounded Nie Du in three ways, only to pounce again.
Zhou Wenshan had already moved to Liantang Village overnight.
The soldiers were so fast that the warriors could not take a break, so they pounced on Liantang Village and immediately launched an attack.
The two sides fought fiercely until more than 10:00 a.m., and the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang was completely destroyed.
However, when inspecting the captives, the bandit leader Zhou Wenshan was not found. It turned out that this guy had felt that the situation was not good last night, and left the bandits under his command in Liantang, while he fled to The Town of Changjiang overnight under the protection of several close associates.
Zhou Wenshan was used to pampering and couldn't stand the pain of wind and food, he had a house in Changjiang Town, and he planned to go there for a good rest for a while.
More than two months later, two PLA scouts arrived unexpectedly and captured Zhou Wenshan alive.
Zhou Wenshan was held in Dayu County Prison. On March 4, 1950, dozens of detained bandits in Chongyi County successfully escaped from prison, led by bandit leaders Qu Xinmin and Wei Xianshi, to dayu County Prison and kidnapped the bandit leader Zhou Wenshan.
After Zhou Wenshan returned to Chongyi, he recruited rebels and collected the remnants of the bandits who had collapsed in the battle. In just over half a month, more than 500 bandits were gathered and attacked peasant associations in more than a dozen villages, killing more than seventy progressive people.
However, this was also Zhou Wenshan's last madness, on April 11, the bandit troops successfully surrounded and annihilated the Zhou Wenshan bandit gang in Neiliang Village, capturing more than 220 bandits and five bandit leaders.
The fly in the ointment was that the old treacherous Zhou Wenshan escaped again.
Zhou Wenshan was also miserable on the way to escape. He smoked a lot, was lustful, and lacked exercise, so his body had long since collapsed. He also suffered from severe rheumatism and could not walk normally, so he could only sit in a basket and let a few strong bandits carry him and hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
The constant onset of illness made Zhou Wenshan worse off than dead, but what made him even more worried was the perseverance of the bandit troops.
Zhou Wenshan never dared to be in one place for more than four hours, and the places where he hid were all high mountains and densely forested, inaccessible valleys and caves, which were cold and damp, which aggravated Zhou Wenshan's illness even more.
On this day, Zhou Wenshan was so tormented by illness that he ordered several bandits to carry him to a place called a crutch pit, where there was a paper shed in Zhou Wenshan.
Zhou Wenshan was going to be there, comfortable and basking in the sun for a while.
The warm and warm sunshine was indeed very effective in relieving the pain, and Zhou Wenshan, who was in a comfortable state, finally fell asleep, and when he woke up, there were several heroic PLA soldiers standing in front of him.
Zhou Wenshan screamed in horror and fainted again.
On May 9, 1950, the town of Changjiang in Renhua County held a public judgment meeting, and tens of thousands of ordinary people did not hesitate to climb the mountain and wade through the water and came to the venue early. The shouts calling for Zhou Wenshan to be shot were louder than a burst.
Zhou Wenshan, who was dejected, could no longer stand normally at this moment, and he curled up on the stage with a look of despair in his eyes. Suddenly, Zhou Wenshan's head was tilted, and his life was whimpering.
The whole venue was boiling, and the indignant people, who were ready to shoot Zhou Wenshan after the end of the public trial meeting, did not expect that he was scared to death.
Absolutely cannot let this murderous demon king die so cheaply, and the angry people, who do not listen to the dissuasion of the PLA fighters who maintain order at the scene, rush up, use stones and bricks and tiles, smash Zhou Wenshan's body into a pile of meat paste, throw it into the raging river water, and feed the fish and turtles.
In Zhou Wenshan's fish and meat township, he had been committing evil for decades, and finally ended up with such a fate, which was really deserved.